03-14-2025, 04:16 AM
DigiFT launches Invesco private credit token on Arbitrum
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDMvMDE5NTkwYWUtOWUwMy03YjMzLThjMWYtZjQ3MjFhZGQyZWRi.jpg"></p><p><p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDMvMDE5NTkwYWUtOWUwMy03YjMzLThjMWYtZjQ3MjFhZGQyZWRi.jpg" alt="DigiFT launches Invesco private credit token on Arbitrum"></p><p>Digital asset exchange DigiFT has launched Invesco’s tokenized private credit strategy on Arbitrum, further expanding the use cases of real-world assets (RWA) and giving institutional investors access to onchain credit markets.<p>According to a March 13 announcement, Invesco’s US Senior Loan Strategy (iSNR) token is now live on Arbitrum, a popular Ethereum layer-2 network.</p><p>The tokenized asset was launched on Feb. 19 and is designed to track the performance of a private credit fund managed by Invesco, a publicly traded investment manager headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. </p><p>At the time of launch, the Invesco fund had $6.3 billion in assets under management, according to <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/digift-to-offer-tokenized-version-of-6-3-billion-invesco-fund" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Bloomberg</a>. </p><p>DigiFT described the iSNR token as the “first and only tokenized private credit strategy.”</p><figure><img alt="Asset Management, Stablecoin, Tokenization, RWA Tokenization" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2025-03/019590d0-f58b-78f8-b91b-b50de6ca8333" title=""><figcaption style="text-align: center;"><p><em>The iSNR tokenized fund has a minimum investment of $10,000. Source: </em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.digift.sg/new-invest/detail?tokenCode=iSNR" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="https://www.digift.sg/new-invest/detail?tokenCode=iSNR"><em>DigiFT</em></a></p></figcaption></figure><p>DigiFT CEO Henry Zhang said adding iSNR to Aribitrum increases its utility by “allowing DeFi applications, DAOs and institutional investors to integrate with a regulated, onchain private credit strategy.”</p><p>Consistent with the initial launch of iSNR on Ethereum last month, investors on Arbitrum can purchase tokenized shares using popular stablecoins USDC (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/usdc-price-index" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">USDC</a>) and USDt (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/tether-price-index" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">USDT</a>).</p><p><em><strong>Related: </strong></em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/cantor-fitzgerald-anchorage-digital-copper-bitcoin-custodians" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null"><em><strong>Cantor Fitzgerald taps Anchorage Digital, Copper as Bitcoin custodians</strong></em></a></p><h2>DeFi tokenization on the rise</h2><p>Despite the recent crypto market downtrend, <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/five-reasons-rwas-are-taking-off-in-2025" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">RWA tokenization</a> appears to be heating up with the launch of several DeFi-oriented products. Positive regulatory developments, the rise of liquid multichain economies and innovations in decentralized exchanges are expected to push RWA tokenization into the crypto limelight this year. </p><p>Earlier this week, tokenization company Securitize announced that oracle provider RedStone will <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/securitize-redstone-defi-oracle-price-feeds" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">deliver price feeds</a> for its tokenized products, which include the BlackRock USD Institutional Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) and the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED). </p><p>The integration means that Securitize’s funds “can now be utilized across DeFi protocols such as Morpho, Compound or Spark,” RedStone’s chief operating officer, Marcin Kazmierczak, told Cointelegraph. </p><p>Meanwhile, asset manager Franklin Templeton has launched <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/franklin-templeton-launches-tokenized-money-fund-base" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">a tokenized money fund</a> on the Coinbase layer-2 network Base and <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/franklin-templeton-us-govt-money-fund-solana" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">a US government money fund</a> on Solana. </p><figure><img alt="Asset Management, Stablecoin, Tokenization, RWA Tokenization" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2025-03/019590d2-7933-7039-8629-06e5aebc14ee" title=""><figcaption style="text-align: center;"><p><em>Private credit ($12.2 billion) and US Treasury debt ($4.2 billion) have dominated real-world asset tokenization so far. Source: </em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://app.rwa.xyz/" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="https://app.rwa.xyz/"><em>RWA.xyz</em></a></p></figcaption></figure><p>According to industry data, the total value of RWAs onchain has grown by 17.5% over the past 30 days to reach $18.1 billion. Private credit and US Treasury debt account for nearly 91% of that total. </p><p><em><strong>Related: </strong></em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/tokenized-real-world-assets-trump-2025" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null"><em><strong>Trump-era policies may fuel tokenized real-world assets surge</strong></em></a></p><template data-name="subscription_form" data-type="crypto_biz" label="Subscription Form: Crypto Biz Newsletter"></template></p>
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<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDMvMDE5NTkwYWUtOWUwMy03YjMzLThjMWYtZjQ3MjFhZGQyZWRi.jpg"></p><p><p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDMvMDE5NTkwYWUtOWUwMy03YjMzLThjMWYtZjQ3MjFhZGQyZWRi.jpg" alt="DigiFT launches Invesco private credit token on Arbitrum"></p><p>Digital asset exchange DigiFT has launched Invesco’s tokenized private credit strategy on Arbitrum, further expanding the use cases of real-world assets (RWA) and giving institutional investors access to onchain credit markets.<p>According to a March 13 announcement, Invesco’s US Senior Loan Strategy (iSNR) token is now live on Arbitrum, a popular Ethereum layer-2 network.</p><p>The tokenized asset was launched on Feb. 19 and is designed to track the performance of a private credit fund managed by Invesco, a publicly traded investment manager headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. </p><p>At the time of launch, the Invesco fund had $6.3 billion in assets under management, according to <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/digift-to-offer-tokenized-version-of-6-3-billion-invesco-fund" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Bloomberg</a>. </p><p>DigiFT described the iSNR token as the “first and only tokenized private credit strategy.”</p><figure><img alt="Asset Management, Stablecoin, Tokenization, RWA Tokenization" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2025-03/019590d0-f58b-78f8-b91b-b50de6ca8333" title=""><figcaption style="text-align: center;"><p><em>The iSNR tokenized fund has a minimum investment of $10,000. Source: </em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.digift.sg/new-invest/detail?tokenCode=iSNR" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="https://www.digift.sg/new-invest/detail?tokenCode=iSNR"><em>DigiFT</em></a></p></figcaption></figure><p>DigiFT CEO Henry Zhang said adding iSNR to Aribitrum increases its utility by “allowing DeFi applications, DAOs and institutional investors to integrate with a regulated, onchain private credit strategy.”</p><p>Consistent with the initial launch of iSNR on Ethereum last month, investors on Arbitrum can purchase tokenized shares using popular stablecoins USDC (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/usdc-price-index" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">USDC</a>) and USDt (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/tether-price-index" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">USDT</a>).</p><p><em><strong>Related: </strong></em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/cantor-fitzgerald-anchorage-digital-copper-bitcoin-custodians" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null"><em><strong>Cantor Fitzgerald taps Anchorage Digital, Copper as Bitcoin custodians</strong></em></a></p><h2>DeFi tokenization on the rise</h2><p>Despite the recent crypto market downtrend, <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/five-reasons-rwas-are-taking-off-in-2025" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">RWA tokenization</a> appears to be heating up with the launch of several DeFi-oriented products. Positive regulatory developments, the rise of liquid multichain economies and innovations in decentralized exchanges are expected to push RWA tokenization into the crypto limelight this year. </p><p>Earlier this week, tokenization company Securitize announced that oracle provider RedStone will <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/securitize-redstone-defi-oracle-price-feeds" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">deliver price feeds</a> for its tokenized products, which include the BlackRock USD Institutional Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) and the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED). </p><p>The integration means that Securitize’s funds “can now be utilized across DeFi protocols such as Morpho, Compound or Spark,” RedStone’s chief operating officer, Marcin Kazmierczak, told Cointelegraph. </p><p>Meanwhile, asset manager Franklin Templeton has launched <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/franklin-templeton-launches-tokenized-money-fund-base" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">a tokenized money fund</a> on the Coinbase layer-2 network Base and <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/franklin-templeton-us-govt-money-fund-solana" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">a US government money fund</a> on Solana. </p><figure><img alt="Asset Management, Stablecoin, Tokenization, RWA Tokenization" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2025-03/019590d2-7933-7039-8629-06e5aebc14ee" title=""><figcaption style="text-align: center;"><p><em>Private credit ($12.2 billion) and US Treasury debt ($4.2 billion) have dominated real-world asset tokenization so far. Source: </em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://app.rwa.xyz/" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="https://app.rwa.xyz/"><em>RWA.xyz</em></a></p></figcaption></figure><p>According to industry data, the total value of RWAs onchain has grown by 17.5% over the past 30 days to reach $18.1 billion. Private credit and US Treasury debt account for nearly 91% of that total. </p><p><em><strong>Related: </strong></em><a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/tokenized-real-world-assets-trump-2025" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null"><em><strong>Trump-era policies may fuel tokenized real-world assets surge</strong></em></a></p><template data-name="subscription_form" data-type="crypto_biz" label="Subscription Form: Crypto Biz Newsletter"></template></p>
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